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PATENTE JUN 281870 'matted tatet a anni' amm,

ELISHA TURNER, OF WOLCOTTVILLE, CON N EGTICUT.'

Letters Patent No. 104,903, dated June 28. 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN TASSEL-HOOKS.

The Schedule referred to in Lhese Letters Patent and making part 0'? the same T o all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, -ELISHIA (BURNER, of Wolcottville, in the con'nty of Litchfieldfand State of Connecticut, have invented and made an Improvement in Tassel-Hooks, and the following is declared to be a correct description thereof.

Tassel-hooks have heretofore been made with an ornamental arm or hook projecting from a plate that is to be secnrcdto the windm ca'sing.

lVhen the arm or hook is made of a separate piece from the plate, the two parts are usually attached by riveting or screwing, and. they are very liable to hecoine separated by use.

'In cases where the arm and plate have been cast together, it has been necessary to use a plain, tapering arm, that would ailow the pattern tofbe drawn out ot' the sand-mold, and then the arm that projected from the cast plate was turned or bent down into the necessary hooked tbrm for receiving the tassel.

In this last-named mode of manufacture thc arm conid'not be cast with an ornamental surface, and in those instances where a divided pattern has been employed, the cost of moldiugandcasting lhas been increased, and the article itself isnot adapted to use with cords and tassels, because of the roughness almost always existing at the place where the division comes in the pattern.

v My invention'consists in a tassel-hook in which. there is an openin;` in the plate behind the hook or arm, so that the same can be molded with facility,and the surface of the hook can be more or iess ornamental. The hook and plate are cast in one piece, and,

hence, rmly united. -The hook does not require bending to shape after casting. The pattern is solid,' instead of being two parts, and there are not burs or tins projecting from the hook, to disfig'ure the same or cut the tasse] or cords.

In the drawing- Figure 1 is an elevation of the improved tasselhook, and 'i Figure 2 is a vertical section of the same. i The back plate a is .an open-work-or ornamental frame,- the opening being-of largervsize than the projecting hook or arm b, and this arm b branches outward from the inner edge of this frame a, at the bottoni portion thereof, so that the pattern can be molded vin sand or other material, the surface thereof, includ-f ing the ornamental frame and ornamental surface of the hook, and the screw-holes@l for att-aching the hook, being in one-half of the mold, and theback ot' the frame and the projection with the-back :of the hook being the other' portion of' the mold.

Tassel-hooks made in this manner can be very ornamental, and 'are easy to mold, strong, and handsome.

. I have shown a recess in the back ofthe frame a, for the reception of a platel of metal or other mate-V rial, 1, to make an ornamental ccnterwithin theopen-A ini;r of the framed.

- Ielaim asv my invention- 1. A tassel-ho'ok, made of an open frame, anda projectingr arm extending in front ofthe opening and' cast in one piece, the open portion of the traine being behind the hook, for the-purposes specified, the whole Vforming a new'artieleA ofv manufact-nre.

2. The ornamental center or pane-l d, combined with the open-work frame and-projecting arm aforesaid, forming a tassel-hook, as set forth.

Signed by me this 20th day of May, A. D. 1870.

' E. lURNERa Witnesses:

Unas. H. SMITH,

G1710.` T. BINCKNEY. 

